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HORTICULTURE 



VOL XXI 



MARCH 20. 1915 



NO. 12 



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HORTICULTURE, PUBLI5HINC. CO. 

 147 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 



Trlrlihonr, Olfortl it:. 

 Wil. J. HTEWAKT, Bdllor Bad M»nn(rr. 



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CONTENTS r:.K.- 



KASTKU — THK SKASON OK OPPORTUNITY — 



//. riry Pcnn 36y 



NOTKS ON ITLTIUK OF FI.OKISTS' STOCK— Cro- 

 tons — Uraraenas — Final Preparations for Kaster — 

 Propa*;atln>; HouMalnvllli'iis — Scc><ilinK TuImtous Be- 

 Konlaii — l'ropaj;atlnfi Double Pyrethruni — John J. il. 



Farrrll 371 



NEW CATTLEYAS— Illustrated 372 



RETAUDING ORCHIDS 372 



•CARNATION DISKASKS— Ofo. L. Pettier 373 



BRITISH HOUTICILTIRE— K. i/. Adsett 373 



•CfLTlKK OF HAUDY SHIUHS— .lr<Aur K. Thalihi-r 374 



HARDY HERUACKOIS PLANTS— IV. .1. ilaniitt 37r. 



TWO GREAT SPRING EXHIBITIONS— The Boston 

 Show — New Y'ork Spring Show — Manhattan's 



Triumph — Ocorpr C. Watson 37ti 



A PURE WHITE GLADIOLUS— /»i«<rotcd 377 



CLUBS AND SOC I ETI^S — Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston — Connecticut Horticultural Society — 

 St. Louis Florist Club— Horticultural Society of New 



York — Lancaster County Florists' Club 378 



Luncheon to S. .\. F. Executive Board, Chicago, Illus- 

 tration — American Sweet Pea Society — Westchester 

 and Fairfield Horticultural Society— Club and So- 

 ciety Notes 379 



Coming Events 380 



OBITUARY— Edwin T. Denham — Charles Hildebrandt 

 — Edward F. CJuinn — T. Lee Adams — Thomas Brown 380 



A WARNING AGAINST TREE FAKERS 381 



THE GI^\SS SITUATION FROM THE MANUFAC- 

 TURERS' STANDPOINT—,/. R. Johnston 384 



SEED TRADE— Itinerary to San Francisco Seed Trade 



Convention 385 



Counter Trade — Future Peas and Beans — Canners' 



Meeting — The San Francisco Outlook — Notes 388 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



A Mountain of Sweet Peas — New Flower Stores... 390 



Flowers bv Telegraph 391 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Boston 392 



Washington, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia. St. Louis... 393 



Chicago 394 



San Francisco 396 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo. Chicago Cincinnati, New York 399 



Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis, 



Washington 401 



ILLINOIS EXPERIMENTS ON FERTILIZERS for 



Floric ultural Crops— F. W. Muncie 408 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Coelogyne cristata 372 



Landscape Work at the Panama Fair 374 



A Field of Dahlias in Bloom— Illustrated 375 



Easter at College Point 375 



Visitors' Register 377 



Lifters and Leaners, poetry 377 



Black Spot on Roses 377 



Training Horticulturists 380 



New York Florists' Bowling Club 380 



A Unique Prize Contest for Boys 380 



Importation of European Pine Prohibited 382 



Edwin Lonsdale Improved 384 



Publications Received 386 



Cold Storage Temperature . . .- '. 38G 



News Notes 386-397 



Catalogues Received 387 



Fires — New Corporations — Business Troubles 396 



A Kindergarten for Successful Florists 397 



Personal 397 



'Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 407 



"Awuke, tliou wintry earth 



Fling off thy KadnesH' 

 Fair vernal flowi-rn. laugh forlli 



Your undent gludnetiH'. 

 Christ Is rlHcn." 



The Rose is visiting in l{<isU)n tliis 



The Queen of weolc. UnfDrttHinU,' roiiditinnB have 



Flowers tciiiifJ to (lisorjjuiil/.e hiT liody jfuard 



somewhat and it would have l>cen 

 >fi..ie iii.j.iessive could all have been in New York or all 

 ill IJostiiii. But she and those of her votaries who 

 ciimo to the Huh on this (KU'aision will rereive a loyal 

 welc-ome iiiul the (lower which hius |in)lmhly done more 

 than any other to gladden the world will find here no 

 dearth of adinircrs. The sentiment, "a hush for every 

 garden," ha,s lioen takinj? on a new octivity within tlie 

 |m.«t few yeni-s ns the aiiaptal)ility of the hybrid tens 

 and little polyanthas for culture in the home parden 

 and their continuous hloominff eharaeter b<'coni<'s known. 

 The American IfoSk; Society ha.s now a field fi>r ax,-tivity 

 whieh is prartically limitless. 



"The Carnation; will it come bai-Jc?" 



The This was the title of a pa[)cr which 



carnation status ict eiitiy appeared in one of our 



contemporaries as written by a 

 prominent member of the craft. The presumption 

 naturally follows after reading the title that the canin- 

 tioii lia.< been waning in j^restege and popularity, which, 

 however, from our viewjioint wouiil scvm to be a de- 

 batable proposition. .\ c-iirefiil survey of the records of 

 the past few years would hardly Ijear out the conclusion 

 that the carnation has suffered to a greater extent than 

 any other one of the leading flower market staples, 

 from the aggressions of other specialties or from the 

 general business depression which lia.s borne more or 

 less severely on all branches ever sine* last summer. It 

 is, of course, up to the carnation men themselves to 

 hold their divine Hower up to the popularity it merits, 

 by an alert and well-considered publicity polic-y in respect 

 to the general ptiblie. "AVliere there's a will, there's a 

 way." 



.V very potent advertisement, fruitful 

 with beneficial publicity for the 

 plant and flower industry is the fast 

 increasing custom of spring "open- 

 ings" witii Uoral decoration, in the big department 

 stores in various cities. These events come at a season 

 when fresh decorative material is most abundant, when 

 the grower can readily furnish the large quantity of 

 material needed to make an impressive showing in these 

 vast establishments and at a fair profit, and conse- 

 quently it is the part of business wisdom to encourage 

 the extension of the practice. The advantage of having 

 such a means of remunerative sale for the abundant 

 spring product is really only a minor consideration, the 

 greater benefit to the flower people being the presenting 

 of their goods before mjTiatis of interested observers, in 

 their most attractive and practical form in the most 

 frequented marts. As an incentive to the popular desire 

 to. have such filings and an education in their proper 

 use, the department store has qunlifications which make 

 it easily the peer of the regulation flower show. 



The great majority of men in the trade. 



Worth and tlie |)ublic as a whole, have little 



the price renlizalion of the vicissitudes through 



which an Easter lily must pass between 



the time of the starting of the tiny bulblet in the field, 



and the time when, togged out in its Easter ribbon, it 



Should 

 be encouraged 



